I'm trying to transition from subversion to git. I have a very poorly structured subversion repository. It has multiple (dozens) copies of many (thousands) of binary files that don't change from version to version. When I "git-svn clone" the repository it takes about 30 hour (yes hours) to (appears to) retrieve the files. Then git goes into either a packing or garbage collecting phase and eventually runs out of memory. I get an error relating to "mmap ... out of memory". When it runs out of memory the "cloned" repository is ~2.4 GBi. I don't know what files it's failing on. I've tried excluding the directories that contain the binary files. Does anyone have suggestions on isolating the problem or working around the memory limitation? Thanks Jack-- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html